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Indian Faces:
an exhibition by Alberto Moretti

Italian photographer
Alberto Moretti presents Indian Faces at the NYIFF - New York
Indian Film Festival - May 4-8 2011

“A photographer of
gestures who has often chosen a dancing body in an attempt to capture, with
aesthetic pleasure, the hidden anxiety and vitality of human emotions. Moretti
has worked on portraits for several years, trying to give expression to such
sentiments. 'Faces', as he calls them, are photographed by Moretti
as if they were sacred places, analysed in their most
intimate features, trying to reveal their passions, self-confidence, hidden
feelings. One of the most prominent features of Moretti’s
portraits is their attention to details; his close-ups reveal fragments of
expression that still convey vibrant emotions. His eyes never seem to rest,
looking for the overwhelming passions surfacing on human faces.”

Italian,
from north-east region Friuli, free-lance photographer, Alberto Moretti, designated as one of the top ten photographers in
the world in the music/performance section by the jury of Sony World
Photographers Awards 2008, has published various books focused on the
representation of dance, the human body, and street scenes. He was also the
topic of a doctoral thesis “History of the Photography of Dance” at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.His photographs appear in specialized
magazines, company catalogues, newspapers, posters and playbills in Europe, the
USA and South America. He has exhibited his works in various galleries and theatres
in Italy and Europe.

The
President of IAAC (Indo-American Arts Council) and
Director of the NYIFF, Ms. Aroon
Shivdasani, has invited the
artist to New York, on the occasion of the “2011 New York Indian Film
Festival", to exhibit his 33 portraits "INDIAN FACES" at the Tribeca Cinema in Manhattan from May 4th to May 8th.Moretti will
exhibit his works together with those of Udinese photographer Giulia Iacolutti,
because her photographs “look for the Spirit within things and seem to explore
the shadow line that traces our human destiny”.Moretti is able to tell us a story behind the
‘Faces’ of some of the protagonists of Bollywood
giant movie industry, which, together with Hollywood, releases the majority of
films worldwide.

The
exhibition “INDIAN FACES”, sponsored by PMP
Industries and OAK Europe, is the second stage of a project started by the
artist, together with Ms. Iacolutti, in November
2010, during the 10th edition of the Indian Film Festival in New York. On that
occasion Moretti and Iacolutti
had taken photographic portraits of a number of important members of the Indian
and Indo-American intellectual elite, among whom the author of ‘The Satanic
Verses’ Salman Rushdie, film director Mani Ratnam (awarded a prize at the latest Venice Film
Festival), award-winning actor Rahul Bose, gallery
owner Sundaram Tagore, of the Tagore dinasty, Somi Roy, son of the
last Princess of Manipur, and many other well-known faces of Bollywood cinema. Moretti’s work
had been greatly appreciated for his very personal approach to photographic
portraits.

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